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单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,Mark Twain,(1835-1910),Mark Twain(November 30,1835 April 21,1910)was born in Florida,USA.He was an American author and humorist.Twain is famous for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(1884),which has been called the Great American Novel,and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer(1876).,Profile,Representative works,Mark Twain,s Masterpieces,Other Works,Running for Governor,The 1,000,000 Bank-Note,The Innocent Abroad,The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County(his first story),The Gilded Age,Following the Equator,Roughing It,The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson,Three Stages of Mark Twain,s Thought and Works,active and lively;,full of acid and satirical sense;,pessimistic and cynic.,His Famous Words,“Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early,and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.”,“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”,“Against the assault of laughter,nothing can stand.”,“Humor is mankinds greatest blessing.”,“,Classic-a book which people praise and dont read.”,“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cant read them.”,“,Everyone is a moon,and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”,Picture from Dave Thomson collection:,“The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that will last through a whole lifetime,if not asked to lend money.,Picture from Dave Thomson collection:,“,The dog is a gentleman;I hope to go to his heaven,not mans.”,Picture from Dave Thomson collection:,Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.,Mark Twain and the Mississippi,Mark Twain loved the great river so much that he always went in the direction of the nearby Mississippi.Many of his great works are set in the background of the Mississippi River,such as The,Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,and Life on the Mississippi.,A Mirror of America,1.“Mirror”here means a person who gives a true representation or description of the country.,2.Generally speaking,all literary giants in human history are also great historians,thinkers and philosophers.Their works often reveal more truth than many political essays.,3.Mark Twain was one of these giants,and his life and works are a mirror of America of his time.,A Brief Assessment,Mark Twain is a part of America.His personal success and failure were those of America.He moved,along with America,from innocence to experience.,He was famous for his description of common people and the way they talked,but especially for his humor.Yale and Oxford honored him for his writing.,
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